I have to pay ticket change fee for the ticket itself and the telephone agent just to change dates... so one change will cost 5400yen no matter what..

This is a bad move. Now what's the point to pay extra to get JAL status? Even diamond members don't get any waivers

There's a modify ticket online button. Not sure how that works though. But yea, their ticketing fee is definitely high. NH is only charging USD25 vs JL USD50. What's worse is they won't even waive it if you can't do it online like booking a Yokoso ticket.

But with a flex ticket, at least you don't have to pay for the penalty which kept increasing over the years.

Seat blocking seems to be almost gone. I can also freely pick rows in economy class that were blocked before. Like row 23ABC or 46ABC on the 777-300ER. Not good news for booking last minute and hoping the airport team can arrange a good seat.

may just be for JMB elites. Remember thereís a change to international front cabin seat selection benefit after the migration. Thatís why seat selection was the first thing I check when the system was back up and I was able to grab 5A with X fare on SS7 well I was on 5K before but just want to grab 5A for the sake of it

i tried as a regular person (not logged in) and it allowed me to pick any seat. (i looked against a flight i have booked way out next year)

There's a modify ticket online button. Not sure how that works though. But yea, their ticketing fee is definitely high. NH is only charging USD25 vs JL USD50. What's worse is they won't even waive it if you can't do it online like booking a Yokoso ticket.

But with a flex ticket, at least you don't have to pay for the penalty which kept increasing over the years.

My ticket doesn't have that function . looks like i'm paying almost 20000yen just to change my ticket which cost 60000yen

Makes me wonder if I should push for diamond this year. I can renew diamond status just by paying a bit extra to get a higher fare.

I think you must have forgotten to logout or something. I just checked my flight and compared it with a dummy booking. I got more seat selections with my booking. Entire row 5 was blocked on the dummy booking which is booked into a higher booking class (D vs X)

@CPH-Flyer, have you checked all of your bookings? So far we've seen these problems

1. A sector missing from the reservation details page
2. Can't pull up reservations using JMB number
3. PNR just disappeared and can't be pulled up anymore
4. Seat assignment lost due to a "config change" which isn't true. The domestic flight hasn't changed the config at all.

There's a modify ticket online button. Not sure how that works though. But yea, their ticketing fee is definitely high. NH is only charging USD25 vs JL USD50. What's worse is they won't even waive it if you can't do it online like booking a Yokoso ticket.

But with a flex ticket, at least you don't have to pay for the penalty which kept increasing over the years.

ANA is like JAL's old policy only if you need to reissue for some change.

Now JAL Charges for everything you do to a ticket. What's the point in having a flexible ticket? Even Yokoso is not worth it with ticketing fee + reissue fee.

ANA is like JAL's old policy only if you need to reissue for some change.

Now JAL Charges for everything you do to a ticket. What's the point in having a flexible ticket? Even Yokoso is not worth it with ticketing fee + reissue fee.

I asked about this the US agent checked with ticketing and came back with the answer that Yokoso can still be changed without the fee. I will see if thatís really the case when I need to change my flight because that contradicts with what it says on the website.